Childhood

Most of us find ourselves missing our childhood in one way or the other as we grow up. I don’t mean to sound clingy, but growing up does take a toll on everyone, I guess. Looking at the childhood photos or may be a small baby, going through all the years all over again in an instant and trying to figure out what exactly went wrong. Being amazed by how much you have been through and came out stronger than ever, at the same time feeling a bit anxious and stupid for not having done something remarkable in so long a time. Imagining the directions in which your life could have possibly gone and comparing it with the one in which it actually did go. Call it mediocrity or the inability of humans to appreciate things in life, but most grownups aren’t really satisfied with their journey to adulthood.
Kudos to all the life lessons you get growing up. Be it travelling alone, taking care of yourself, managing time and everything, gaining endurance, learning the ways of this highly manipulative, profit-oriented, self-centered world. But all this at the cost of innocence and purity and everything else nice that we carried within ourselves as a child! I don’t imply for the fairy tale part to be true or carry on, but isn’t there still a part that wishes you didn’t have to grow up and go through this exhaustive, hopeless and sad lessons learning process? Isn’t there still this wish that the world worked with simplicity, just how your childhood-self wanted it to? Isn’t there still that tiny wish that you didn’t have to deal with all the politics and the mind games?
We feel burdened as we grow up,  not because we carry a lot of responsibilities but because we don’t really speak our mind and heart just to get along and end up feeling heavy-hearted or alone.

What if growing up only meant learning to cross roads or learning to drive a vehicle or learning science and how the world works or being able to remember the words and the grammar rules of different languages or hearing all the historical tales and turning into a courageous, intelligent, responsible, wonderful, loving and lovable person? What if growing up didn’t turn us into anything as double-standard or two-faced or hypocrite or profit-oriented or manipulative or selfish or mediocre, that it actually kind of does? Why does growing up rob us of our childhood innocence and purity of heart that we are born with? Where do all the carefree smiles and the hopefulness and simplicity of the life go as we grow up? What’s with hard hard-heartedness and all the complicacy we go through as we grow up?
As a kid, everyone around us wishes for us to grow into an amazing, wonderful adult. But do we? Or even did they?
May be we need to try to keep the nice things about ourselves intact as we grow up and growing up might turn out to be a little less painful and disappointing.

Passion

A soul driven by passion is a soul never failed and is a soul lived to the fullest! And more importantly, a passionate soul leaves an ever-lasting impression on the hearts of those who were lucky enough to have known it!
Passion drives us through the roughest of our times. I guess, the greatest of changes made in this world were made by a passion driven heart. 
You lose track of time when you are doing something you love or are passionate about.
Passion is when you get filled with wonder while stating an
amazing fact to a class as much as you did when you came across it the first time. The disinterested students don’t bother you.
Passion is when you have that amazing smile on your face while singing to an audience, even though you might not be getting the response you expected. You sing anyway because you just love it so much.
Passion is when falling down or getting hurt doesn't stop you from dancing.
Passion is when a failed recipe doesn’t stop from you from creating another one each coming day.
At some point, passion is basically not caring at all about the criticism or failures or hurdles that you face while doing something that your heart beats for! Because, you are not doing that to get praise or be the best at it.
Deep down, you just know that you can always get better at things and therefore, you don’t worry as to where you stand today.
Passion is, sometimes, a way of escapism from all the problems and distractions. Passion doesn’t let your faith shake from going through all the bad experiences and discouragements you face while chasing your dreams. And to have found your passion is probably the best thing that will ever happen to you!